Dungeons and Dragons Online

[Fifty]

You can pay a lot of money to do a levelling treadmill with the inevitable l33t doodz and 10 year olds in the game. OR You can play for nearly free in a controlled community that has no bones about saying "people under 16 cannot play here, we don't want their money."


The holy grail of MMORPG's (for people like us) would be a big-time pay to play game that somehow was able to filter out the young kids and the immature adults and to somehow control the RP and community. I have not seen evidence that this is possible on a large scale yet, though I'm sure DDO will try for it. Time will tell how well they've succeeded.

I know how you hate regulation and the like, but I can't help but wonder if the ESRB rating system enforced to its hilt like some industry people want it (and I happen to agree, as it would be self-regulating rather than governmental regulating) couldn't help in this filtering process.

If a MMO were to be slapped with high enough rating so that kids couldn't buy it in stores, and then had content that didn't particularly appeal to the GTA crowd, wouldn't that help as an alternative?

Yes, Nob. A porn MMORPG would be wildly successful.

I just havent' found myself a team willing to do it.

Ooh ohh! Pick me pick me!